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Robinson
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Robinson : Scripture Characters
"Read in Robinson's 'Scripture characters' and in 'The wonders of the vegetable kingdom', which is a very instructive, amusing and well-written volume.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Book
Henry Crabbe Robinson : Memoirs
Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning's Ring and Book ... the President de Brosse's delightful letters, Crabbe Robinson's memoirs and the new vol. of Ste Beuve."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book
John Robinson : Illuminati
To Lady Isabella King, Bath March 8th 1798 'Have you read "The Pursuits of Literature"? It is a satirical poem. I dislike satire in general, but this appears to me one of the cleverest books I ever met with, and indeed this is the general opinion respecting it... I have read Robinson on the "Illuminati". It is said by people wel-informed on the subject to be a true representation.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith Print: Book
Robert Robinson : Miscellaneous Works of Robert Robinson
[Marginalia]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
Mary Robinson : Lines To Him Who Will Understand Them
'Lines - To him that will understand them' 'Thou art no more my bosom's Friend;/...' 'Mrs Robinson'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux
Mary Robinson : Vancenza; or the Dangers of Credulity
'read Mrs Robinson's Valcenza'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Frederick William Robinson : Christie's Faith
From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Christie's Faith, by the author of "Owen, a Waif," is a novel which I can guarantee myself. The scenes are not laid in a very elevated class of life, and some are extremely painful, but there is a noble religious tone throughout the book which carries one through all. If I were inclined to criticise, I should say that the author does not understand women as well as he does men, and one scene, in which a so-called lady offers to be the wife of a man much her inferior in position, would in other hands have been very unpleasant. As it is, it is merely unnatural. The author's sympathies are evidently not with the English Church, but he is no way antagonistic to it.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book
Robert Robinson : Ecclesiastical Researches
Robert Southey to John May, 4 June, 1797: 'The books with me are more than I wish when moving, & fewer than I want when settled. whilst I was packing them up, a friend brought me Robinsons Ecclesiastical Researches. he has as much wit as Jortin & yet never ceases to be serious, & with erudition at least equal to Mosheim, possesses a candour & discrimination which Mosheim wanted. have you read George Dyers life of Robert Robinson? it is the history of a very extraordinary man told with infinite simplicity by one as extraordinary as himself.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Print: Book
Lennox Robinson : The White Headed Boy
'It is St Patrick's Day - there is a reading of "The White Headed Boy" by an Irish author with an Irish cast.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Book
Mary Robinson : 'pastoral [poem]'
'I was correcting a proof sheet of my volume [of poetry], when the servant abruptly announced Mr. Fitzgerald! [...] The next subject of praise [following Fitzgerald's compliments on Robinson's baby daughter] was my poetry [...] Mr. Fitzgerald took up the proof sheet and read one of the pastorals.'
